(August 17, 2019 at 10:00 pm)Acrobat Wrote:Yup, as predicted, apologetics for slavery. Take a long hard look at yourself.(August 17, 2019 at 9:44 pm)Abaddon_ire Wrote: And the hair splitting starts. It wasn't a difficult question until you fucked it up
Let's not. That is trivial diversion. Grow up.
No it wouldn't be beneficial to that country. It would be detrimental. Japan is already screwed by overpopulation.
Sure, Japan is dying. Right.
Strawman
Strawman.
Well that is just a dumb statement.
Sure, because stringing up those witched was a good thing. The crusades were a good thing. Raping those children was a good thing. Covering up the child rape was a good thing. Right?
Wow. You are now defending slavery. That makes you immoral straight out of the box.
No, the moment you defended slavery, you lost any moral standing. That is on you, nobody else.
I’m not defending slavery, you’re the one that questioned why I don’t see wellbeing as a reasonable basis for morality.
You can use wellbeing, for a variety of things that are immoral (slavery) as well as non-moral, hence the reason I don’t find it to be a reasonable basis for morality.
I can agree that slavery is immoral, but is very well possible a reasonable argument could be made that it was beneficial to the wellbeing of society as whole especially in the long run, but this doesn’t make it any less immoral.
Is slavery immoral now? Yesterday? Last week? Last year? How about 2,000 years ago? Was morality somehow different then?